College football announcers SEC football fans love to hate

CBS Golf Analyst Nick Faldo, Sr. Vice President of Communications at CBS Leslie Anne Wade, and College Football Analyst Gary Danielson (Photo by John Filo/ CBS via Getty Images)

Disliked SEC football announcers: Gary Danielson – CBS

While CBS has had some questionable personalities calling SEC games over the years (Rick Neuheisel, Carter Blackburn, Craig Bolerjack, among others) nobody quite sticks in the craw of an SEC football fan the way Gary Danielson does.

For many SEC fans, Danielson represents everything SEC fans hate — born in Michigan, schooled at Purdue, and NFL’d in Cleveland and Detroit — and his raspy tenor voice just gives them even more to dislike.

The wondrous thing about Danielson is that it’s not even about him disliking or knocking the SEC. For a midwest guy, he’s as big a conference homer as you’ll find. But no matter which team you’re rooting for, Danielson is biased the other way.

If you listen to SEC fans, Gary Danielson hates EVERYONE.

@SEConCBS Best reason to go to the #SEChampionship game is to not have to listen to Gary Danielson hate on #bama for 3 plus hours. #RollTide
— Adam B. Cole, CPA (@AdamBCole) November 10, 2018

Hey @CBSSports why does Gary Danielson hate LSU? He continually bashes them and when great plays happen he finds an excuse as to why it happened. Time for him to retire #GeauxTigers
— Kyle Whigham (@Whigsy) October 19, 2019

#Gary Danielson why do you hate Georgia so much?
— Rosemary Thompson (@rhettandgracie) December 1, 2018

He even found a way to alienate the fans of both teams in an SEC Championship game once.

Help me out. Was Gary Danielson saying the committee should put in Alabama INSTEAD of the SEC champ? He said "I don't think the committee should take this game into effect at all."
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) December 3, 2017

At some point, the SEC and CBS Sports need to take a hard look at Gary Danielson in the booth. He referenced Alabama so much, it was a disservice to both Georgia and Auburn who deserved and won the right to be there. It’s a big problem.
— Brad Logan (@BradLoganCOTE) December 3, 2017

It’s pretty clear, when it comes to college football announcers, nobody gets the goat and draws the ire of SEC football fans quite like Gary Dennis Danielson.